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2.
Strongly condemns also all forms of racial discrimination and
xenophobia related to access to employment, vocational training, housing,
schooling, health services and social services, as well as services intended for use
by the public;
Welcomes the active role played by governmental and non-governmental
3.
organizations in combating racism and xenophobia and in assisting victims of racist
acts, including migrant victims;
Calls upon all States to consider reviewing and, where necessary,
4.
revising immigration policies with a view to eliminating all discriminatory practices
against migrants and their families and adopting effective action to create conditions
that foster greater harmony, tolerance and respect within societies, and to provide
specialized training for government policymaking, law enforcement, migration and
other concerned officials, including in cooperation with non-governmental
organizations and civil society;
Requests States effectively to promote and protect the human rights and
5.
fundamental freedoms of all migrants, regardless of their immigration status,
especially those of women and children, in conformity with the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights1 and the international instruments to which they are
party, which may include the International Covenants on Human Rights,3 the
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment, 13 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, 14 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 15 the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 16 the
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families 17 and other relevant human rights instruments;
Requests all States, international organizations and relevant stakeholders
6.
to take into account in their policies and initiatives on migration issues the global
character of the migratory phenomenon and to give due consideration to
international, regional and bilateral cooperation in this field, with a view to
addressing, in a comprehensive manner, its causes and consequences and granting
priority to the protection of the human rights of migrants;
Welcomes the increasing number of signatures and ratifications or
7.
accessions to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All
Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and calls upon States that have
not done so to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the Convention as a
matter of priority;
Urges States parties to the United Nations Convention against
8.
Transnational Organized Crime and supplementing protocols thereto, namely, the
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air and the Protocol
to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and
Children, 18 to implement them fully, and calls upon States that have not done so to
consider ratifying them as a matter of priority;
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13
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1465, No. 24841.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
15
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
16
Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex.
17
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2220, No. 39481.
18
Resolution 55/25, annexes I–III.
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